Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.